Insight - Page 20
Buy me a bottle…
23 Jan 2021 11:27 PM ISTMore typically, don’t force me to drink in my father’s car, or cross city borders to get my quota of tipple. I can vote, I can drive, I can sire...
A hard choice? Or not?
16 Jan 2021 11:21 PM IST‘Incredible’ may not be the appropriate adjective to describe the event, but incredible indeed it was to watch a sitting President of the United...
Friday needs a Sunday
9 Jan 2021 10:42 PM ISTTo kill off a car in 10 or 15 years is a joke, especially in a country like India. And far more radically so in the times that we are going through...
Who the hell needs 5G?
2 Jan 2021 10:30 PM ISTThe few surviving telecom firms in India have demanded that 5G air-waves be auctioned by the Government at the soonest. To some extent, I agree....
Running out of air
19 Dec 2020 11:20 PM ISTFor the uninitiated, here’s a wake-up call, while we still breathe easy and free. We are headed for a calamity of our own doing, but we shamelessly...
When eyes have water
12 Dec 2020 11:00 PM ISTI am turning old and had concluded that life’s ups and downs have hardened my countenance and shell. Not totally, it seems… For yesterday, some simple...
A pair of jeans
5 Dec 2020 11:31 PM ISTIt is heart-breaking that we find ourselves in such a state of affairs in India today, economically and otherwise. Why should I talk evasively? Let me...
Death of a Legend
28 Nov 2020 10:45 PM ISTQuietly and largely unnoticed, a giant has flown into the dusk and disappeared — for good, never to return, thanks to COVID-19 and the changing world...
Another one bites the dust
21 Nov 2020 11:43 PM ISTJust when we had begun to relax our heart and gut muscles after months of fear and worry, there’s more terrible news. COVID-19 has entered its third...
Abuse of the lockdown
7 Nov 2020 11:14 PM ISTI first noticed the trend six months back, as repeated classified ads in newspapers shook me up, and the innocence in the pictures let out in me a...
20 years, and counting
24 Oct 2020 11:00 PM ISTI met a beautiful and rather impetuous girl two decades back. Arrogant and shameless she was. Unfortunately, she still is. But somehow, she has...
CNG. Can Not Go?
10 Oct 2020 10:46 PM ISTI asked a friend to accompany me and Anjali to our home in Manali in a few days. He was keen, but festered long and hard about the longevity of his...
Festival of Light, Shadows of Trade
26 Oct 2025 12:07 AM ISTOut with the Old, In with the New
26 Oct 2025 12:02 AM ISTDigital Dystopia
25 Oct 2025 11:59 PM ISTMemoir of Silent Scars
25 Oct 2025 11:56 PM ISTBlue Promises, Grey Realities
19 Oct 2025 1:12 AM IST
Chhath Puja celebrations begin with fervour, tight security, & traffic...
28 Oct 2025 12:55 AM ISTRekha Gupta stresses unity & development
28 Oct 2025 12:54 AM ISTMayor Singh inspects Chhath preps at Geeta Colony
28 Oct 2025 12:54 AM ISTAAP slams BJP for allowing liquor stores to stay open during Chhath
28 Oct 2025 12:53 AM IST‘Delhi to acquire amphibious excavators to step up Yamuna cleaning,...
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